Genius Beast Taming: Starting from Awakening an S-Rank Talent

As time went by, several more golden carp with dragon scales leaped up from below the waterfall.

However, these few dragon-scaled golden carp either didn't accumulate enough energy and failed to withstand the tempering of thunder and fire, turning directly into charcoal; or they didn't fully refine the energy of the spiritual objects within their bodies to resonate with the spiritual essence of the mountains and rivers; or they failed to grow dragon tails after the thunder and fire burned away their fish tails.

Of the dozens of dragon-scaled golden carp, only three successfully advanced to the mid-level gold-quality dragon-tailed serpent carp, which Zhou Heng temporarily kept in the Ring of All Rivers and Seas.

The Eternal Night Dragon flew down from beneath the thousand-meter waterfall: "Old Deng, so this is the evolution ritual you researched? It's really troublesome. It's only evolved these fish to mid-level Gold rank, and it's already this complicated. What are you going to do later?"

Zhou Heng looked completely calm and collected: "That's none of your business."

The anthropomorphic Night Dragon curled its lip: "Fine, fine, I've really made a fool of myself."

Zhou Heng glanced at the pile of Dragon Scale Golden Carp corpses left beside the waterfall and the severely injured Dragon Scale Golden Carp that had failed to evolve, and then collected the living Dragon Scale Golden Carp as well.

After all, not many Dragon Scale Golden Carp can be trained to meet the standards in a short period of time. These injured ones can be nurtured and have another chance to evolve.

He said to the Eternal Night Dragon, "These dead ones are all yours."

The Eternal Night Dragon rolled its eyes: "They're all just third-tier extraordinary creatures, and they've all been roasted by lightning and fire. They're not fresh at all. I wouldn't even look at them!"

"Whatever."

Zhou Heng made a move to leave with the other beasts and his two junior disciples.

After thinking for a moment, the Eternal Night Dragon opened its blood-red maw and swallowed all the charred dragon scales and golden carp into its belly, filling its stomach as snacks.

Then it shrank back to the size of a palm, flew back to Zhou Heng's shoulder, and followed Zhou Heng back to the Cold Moon Cave.

Afterwards, Zhou Heng returned to the Canglan Plane and replenished the food needed by the six beast tamers.

Especially the Rainbow-Winged Azure Phoenix, which has now entered its sub-adult stage and needs more, higher-quality food suitable for pure-blooded phoenixes.

As for the Eternal Night Dragon, it has not yet entered the sub-adult stage and is still in the growth stage, requiring it to eat one extraordinary creature of the same level every day.

The extraordinary creatures that Zhou Heng's maternal grandfather had previously placed in the seventh-tier treasure, the Myriad Spirits Building, were almost all gone. Zhou Heng then asked his family to replenish them with one or two hundred fourth-tier extraordinary creatures and five or six hundred fifth-tier extraordinary creatures.

Since the Eternal Night Dragon is already at the peak of the fourth tier and is about to break through to the fifth tier, it does not need too many fourth-tier extraordinary creatures.

On the contrary, we need to prepare more for fifth-tier extraordinary creatures, so that we can use them after the Eternal Night Dragon breaks through.

Although Zhou Heng will initiate an evolution ritual for the Eternal Night Demon Dragon after it breaks through to the fifth rank, allowing it to evolve into the Abyss Demon Dragon, the Abyss Demon Dragon's food is similar to that of the Eternal Night Demon Dragon, both being extraordinary creatures of the same rank.

However, after advancing to the fifth rank, the Overlord Beastmaster will officially enter the sub-adult stage. At this time, it will no longer be necessary to devour a fifth-rank extraordinary creature every day. It will only need to devour an extraordinary creature of the same rank every once in a while.

The other beasts, such as the Silver Dragon of the Overturning Sea, the Titan Lord, and the Lucky Qilin King, follow a similar pattern: as their levels increase, the frequency of their feeding will slow down, but the quality requirements will become higher.

As for the Star-Devouring Kunpeng, it is the most special. Zhou Heng doesn't need to worry about its food at all. Once it reaches the sixth rank, he only needs to take it to the depths of the universe to find planets to devour.

After stockpiling enough food for six tamed beasts, Zhou Heng returned to Hanyue Cave.

After being promoted to a mid-level gold-ranked breeder, Zhou Heng did not slack off. He continued to study the subsequent evolution rituals of the Dragon-Tailed Flood Carp.

As the number of extraordinary creatures cultivated by Zhou Heng increased, the entire breeding base became too large to contain them all, so Zhou Heng released a batch of them to reproduce on their own.

Although these extraordinary creatures have left the breeding base, they remain inside the floating fortress and will not affect subsequent research.

Even so, Feng Zhong and Feng Yong were still struggling to manage the situation.

Because they not only have to feed these extraordinary creatures, but also record their various data and detailed information, two people are far from enough. They need to find someone to assist Feng Zhong and Feng Yong.

However, they couldn't just find anyone, because being by Zhou Heng's side meant having immediate access to his research data. If the person they found was unreliable, it could easily leak that data.

Although Zhou Heng was not afraid of data leaks, he did not want unreliable people to enter his breeding base.

After careful consideration, Zhou Heng quickly came up with a candidate.

He had Feng Zhong and Feng Yong bring over three direct descendants of the Zhou family who had been admitted to Hanyue University in the same year as him: Zhou Heng's cousin Zhou Honglie, cousin Zhou Hongyu, and grandson Zhou Yongchuan.

Zhou Honglie, the cousin, spoke first: "Uncle, what brings you here?"

Zhou Heng cut to the chase: "I need someone to manage the breeding base for me. Are the three of you willing?"

Without the slightest hesitation, Zhou Hongyu, the cousin's daughter, agreed immediately: "We are naturally willing to help our uncle."

The other two had no objections.

Zhou Heng was very satisfied with the three's attitude: "I won't let you help me for nothing. From now on, I will give you a batch of spiritual items that you can use every month as your wages."

Zhou Honglie and Zhou Hongyu beamed with joy: "Thank you, Uncle."

Zhou Yongchuan, a descendant of the same clan, also showed joy: "Thank you, Grand Uncle."

Zhou Heng made some arrangements: "For the next two days, you will follow Elder Zhong and Elder Yong to learn how to take care of the extraordinary creatures in the breeding base. Also, if you have classes, you can go back and attend them with your mentors. When you don't have classes, just come over."

Zhou Honglie, the cousin, immediately said, "My cousin and I both applied to the School of Literature and History, so we don't have many classes. Although Hongchuan applied to the School of Comprehensive Theory, the majors he chose are also very easy. The professors are practically bedridden, so he doesn't have many classes either."

Among the seven colleges of Hanyue University, the College of Literature and History has always been the first choice for students from prestigious families whose talents are only at the A-level.

As for the Institute of Integrated Theory, its management is relatively relaxed.

However, the specific situation depends on the personality of each individual mentor.

Zhou Yongchuan, a descendant of the clan, looked very enthusiastic: "We were just bored, and now we can work for our great-uncle. We couldn't be happier."

Zhou Heng said gently, "I'll be relying on you from now on."

Her cousin Zhou Hongyu smiled gently: "We're all family, Uncle, you're being too formal."

Zhou Heng said solemnly, "My cultivation results are in the cultivation base. I would not trust outsiders to manage it if they were not family members."